Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-08
puts his swollen head into the straw, but

"e"N iAoAu eAe Oestlallty, ana stopping MS
and better. He washes his face clean at
the public hydrant. With few pennies
got at running errands he gets better coat.
Tough men knowing that he comes from
low street, say: "Back with you. you little
villain, TO the place where you came FROM"
But that night the bow saws: Good help
me, can't go back" and quicker than
ever mother flew at the cry of a child S pain,
the Lord responds from the heavens:
Courage, poor boy, courage" His bright
race gets him position. After while he
Is second clerk. Years pass on, and he is
hrst clerk. Years pass on. The glory OF
comes into the firm. He goes
on from one business success to
another. He has achieved grea. fortune.
He is the friend of the church of God, the
friend of all good institutions, and one
day he stands talking to the board of
trade or to the chamber of commerce.
People say: DO you know who that is?
Why, that is merchant prince, and he was
born on Elm street" But God says in
regard to him something better than that:
"These are they which came out of
great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the Lamb" Oh, for some one to write the
have triunphed over want and starvation,
and filth and rags! Yea, the record has
already been made, made by the hand of
God; and when these shall come at last
with songs and rejoicing, it will take
very broad banner to hold the names of all
the battlefelds on which they got the
victory.
Some years ago roughly-clad, ragged
boy came into my brothers Office in New
York and said: "Mr. Talmage, lend me
So" My brother said: "Who are your"
The boy replied: Il am nobody. Lend me
So" what do you want to do with $5?"
WELL" the boy replied, "my mother is
SICK and poor and 1 Want to go into the
home for her and will pay you back" My
expecting to see it again; but he said:
will pay it in six months, sir Time
went by, and one day lad came into my
brothers Office and said: "Theres your
So. "What do you mean? What S." i'll
CURED my brother. :Don't you remember
that boy came in here six months ago
and wanted to borrow So to go into the
newspaper business?" ooh, yes, re-
member; are you the lad?" "Yes," he re-
piled, II have got along nicely. Ihave got
nice home for my mother tshe is sick
YETI and am as we'll clothed as you are,
worth saving? Why, that lad is worth fifty
such boys as have sometimes seen NOV
ing in elegant circles, never put TO any use
for God or man. Worth saving! I 90
farther than that and tell you they are not
only worth saving but they are being saved.
One of these lads picked up
from our streets and sent west
by benevolent society wrote
east, saying: II am getting along first rate.
l am on probation in the Methodist
Church. / shall be entered as n member
the LIST of next month. now teach Sun
day school class of eleven boys. I get
country to make living in. If the boys
running around the street with backing
box on their shoulder, or bundle of
papers under their arms, only knew what
high old times We boys have out here, they
wouldn't hesitate about coming west, but
come the first chance they got" So some
by one humane and Christian visitation,
and some by another, are being rescued.
In one reform school, through which 1000
of the little ones passed, 1,995 turned out
we'll. In other words, only five OF the
1000 turned out badly. There are
thousands of them who, through Christian
tiful homes all over this land. and there
are many who, through the rich grace of
our Lord Jesus Christ, have already won
the crown. A little girl was found in the
streets of Baltimore and taken into one of
the reform societies, and they said to her:
"What is your name?" She said: "My
name is Mary" "What is your other
name?" She said: II don't know" So
they took her into the reform society, and
as they did not know her last name they
always called her "Mary Lost" since she
had been picked up out Of the street. But
she grew on, and after awhile the Holy
Christian child, and she changed her name;
and when anybody asked her what her
name was she said: at used to be Mary
Lost; but now, since l have become
Christian, it is Mary Found"
For this vast multitude are we willing TO
go forth from this mornings service and
see what we can do, employing all the
agencies have spoken of for the rectitca-
ton of the poisoned fountains? We live
in beautiful city. The lines have fallen
to us in pleasant places and we have q
goodly heritage; and any man who does
not like residence in Brooklyn must be a
most uncomfortable and unreasonable
man. But, my friends, the material
There may be fine houses and beautiful
and that all be the garniture of
sepulcher. Some of the most prosperous
cities of the world have gone down; not
one stone left upon another. But city
may be in ruins long before a tower has
fallen, or column has crumbled, or a
tomb has been defaced. When in a city
the churches of God are full of cold
formalities and inanimate religion; when
the houses of commerce are the abode of
fraud and unholy traffic; when the streets
are filled with crime unarrested and sin
and helplessness unpitied
that city is in ruins, though every
church were st. Peters and every
institution were Bank
of England and every library were
a British museum and every house had a
porch like that of Rheims and roof like
that Of Amiens and tower like that of
and traceried windows like those
of Freiburg.
My brethren our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone, and
what we have to do for the city in which we
live we must do right speedily or never do
it at all. In that day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and de- /
spsed the poor shall come to shame and
everlasting contempt, I hope it may be
said of you and me that we gave bread to